Fair treatment needed to attract OV intellectuals

Hanoi (VNA) – Policies and
mechanisms that give fair treatment to overseas Vietnamese (OV) intellectuals
and their domestic counterparts are needed to encourage OV scholars to work for
the country, participants said at a workshop in Hanoi on December 28.

Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Science
and Technology Associations (VUSTA) Nghiem Vu Khai said a big number of
Vietnamese intellectuals are working in the fields of education and
science-technology abroad, but only several hundred of them return home each
year to work or to implement research projects.

Participants recommended bringing into play the
role of OV intellectuals in connecting foreign researchers, training and
research establishments as well as investors with domestic counterparts to
support the training of experts and investment in high technology and
scientific research.

They proposed building a network of OV
scientists and technical experts as a solution to engage OV intellectuals in
national development.

In recent years, OV intellectuals have made
significant contributions to the country’s development.

Annually, about 300 scholars return to Vietnam to
participate in cooperative programmes in science-technology and
education-training. Around 55 percent of them work with State agencies and the
other 45 percent give lectures and join in research at universities and
research institutes.-VNA